The stock market is the most well-known place to invest. It is fast paced. It is glamorous. Millions of dollars are made and lost every minute the market is open. It can be intimidating to get …
How to Get Started Buying Stocks Online
Every time I need to buy or sell a stock, mutual fund, or index fund, I hop online and enter the trade on my brokerage website. It wasn’t always this easy to invest and we are lucky to live in an age …
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Investment Analysis: Valuing a Stock with Multiple Analysis
Lately, I have been a big fan of investing in low fee mutual funds and ETFs. It takes a lot less work and research to invest in funds than stocks. That doesn’t mean I don’t have any individual stocks …
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What Does a Share of Stock Represent?
Almost everyone knows that you can buy and sell stock in a company, but a lot of people don’t fully understand what a share of stock represents. …
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How Should a Young Person Get Started with Investing
Your first job. Such a big milestone. For the first time ever, you are financially independent. You have moved on from being a broke college student to a successful young professional. Don’t get too …
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The Biggest IPOs of All Time
After Facebook’s record setting $16 billion IPO on Friday, which was received by the public with lackluster results, I started to think about other large IPOs and how they fared. While none had the …
Investing in the Cruise Industry
After the recent, highly publicized crash of the Costa Condordia, people around the world are looking hard at the cruise vacation industry. While everyone is focusing on the problems today, it might …
The Meteoric Rise and Fall of Netflix
In 1997, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph created a company called Netflix. Hastings was angry about a late fee charged when he turned in the movie Apollo 13 after the due date. His business was about …
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